how about instead of burning Qurans, they sit down and draw caricatures of Mohammed and then print them in the paper.

That would satisfy your natural inclination against poking the Mulsims by not burning books, but all the creative artists would still make the most wanted list dead or alive in Islam.

With 10,000's of cultures, someone will be offended religiously or otherwise by anything someone else does or says.  Whatever you do infringes on their rights, it's inescapable. So the author is right, eliminating religion would eliminate a lot of what divides us, or was that Karl Marx?  Patreaus is right, too, it will hurt the war effort, but so what.

There shouldn't be a war effort. 

The Quran burners are right, too.  They want to send a message to Muslims that the old ways are not acceptable.  Just printing words on paper or typing blogs isn't enough.  Because Sunnis make up 85% of all Muslims, and unlike Christians are not broken up into little groups, they all follow the same rules.  The difference between a liberal, moderate, or radical Muslim is the teaching of the local Imam. As Imams change so does the character of the Muslims within the mosque.

Muslims committing terrorism are not illiterate peasants, they are usually well educated intelligent young men.  Well educated enough to understand the difference between right and wrong and the moral impact of their actions.  And yet, because of religion they do it.

Without  a central authority figure, all Muslims must take responsibility for the actions of their co-religionists, unlike Christians whom can point to their various sect leaders. That being said, what are American Muslims doing to change the horrific behavior of their Arab cousins?

I vote for cartoon day, let's show Mohammed with performing FMG on young girls, executing young women (honor killing), and marrying 12 year olds.  maybe then Muslims will get the idea that we have a problem with their customs.

Don't waste your vote, vote Green or Independent in the next election.